Petrus Graebner

Petrus Graebner (1879-1954) was a Freikorps leader from Germany during the Russian Civil War.

Biography
Petrus Graebner was born in 1889 in Kolberg, Prussia, German Empire (present-day Kolobrzeg, Poland) to a family of Germans. Graebner joined the Imperial German Army shortly before World War I, and he became a company commander during the war on the eastern front. After the 11 November 1918 armistice between the Central Powers and the Entente Powers, Graebner decided to continue the war with Russia, joining the far-right Freikorps during the Russian Civil War. Graebner fought in the Baltics, and he defeated the Bolsheviks at the Battle of Rushigen in Lithuania. Graebner would later transfer into the Reichswehr, and he would proceed to join the Nazi Party under Adolf Hitler. He had retired from the military by 1934, and he died twenty years later in Hanover, West Germany.